一批人坐下來用餐的一場
把「一段坐定」放到餐桌上：位子不夠所有人同時坐，就分成好幾場、一批一批坐下來吃。每一批坐定吃的那一回，就是一個 sitting。
meal sitting/shift · noun · B2
One of the separate times a meal is served, when there is not enough room for everyone to eat at once.
（用餐）場次、梯次
核心畫面
You can picture sitting as one block of time you stay seated in one place doing one thing without getting up — you sit down, you stay sat, and that whole stretch is 'a sitting'. From that single stretch-of-seated-time grow all the uses: one batch of seated together, one stretch of staying still to be painted, one stretch a court or parliament is in session.
可以把 sitting 想成：你坐下來、一直坐著、中途不起身，把一件事做完的那「一段坐定的時間」。整個字都從這個畫面…更多收起
可以把 sitting 想成：你坐下來、一直坐著、中途不起身，把一件事做完的那「一段坐定的時間」。整個字都從這個畫面長出來：一批人坐下來一起吃的那一場、坐著不動讓人畫像的那一段、法院或議會坐在席位上開會的那一次。抓住「坐定不起身的那一段時間」，四個用法就串起來了。Three branches
坐著讓人畫像、拍照的一段
同樣是「坐定不動的一段時間」，只是這次你是模特兒：坐著別動，讓畫家或攝影師抓住你。
portrait sitting · noun · B2
A time when you sit still so that an artist can paint you or a photographer can take your picture.
（被畫像、拍照的）一次擺坐
法院或議會開議的一次
把「坐定的那一段」放到正式場合：法官、議員坐到席位上、正式開議的那一次。英文裡開會用 sit（議會 sits），所以坐定開會的那一場就叫 sitting。
court/parliament session · noun · B2
One period of time when a court or parliament is meeting.
（法院或議會的）開庭、會期
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sittingnoun詞源 1/ˈsɪtɪŋ/
- 1
A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
- The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
- 2
A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- "It's not always easy to get him, and of course a small fee, a guinea I think, is usual, but if you wanted a sitting I could work it." "You think him genuine?" Atkinson shrugged his shoulders.
- 3
A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- 4
The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- 5
A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
- 6
The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- 7
A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
- 8
An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
- I read it in two sittings.
sittingadj詞源 2/ˈsɪtɪŋ/
- 1
Executed from a sitting position.
- 2
Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
- It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.
- 3
Of a bird, incubating eggs.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。